The statue of Queen Astrid can be found at the triangle formed by the two roads of
Chaussee de Boondael and rue du Relais. It was created by Victor Demanet (°1895 - †1964). The triangular place has recently been modified.
Princess Astrid was born at her parents' home, Arvfurstens Palats, in Stockholm on 17 November 1905, the third daughter of Prince Carl, Duke of Västergötland, and his wife, Princess Ingeborg of Denmark.
At an evening ball, Astrid, a Swedish princess, danced all night with Leopold of Belgium. And as the night progressed, Leopold and Astrid never left each other's side. Some months later, King Albert I and Queen Elisabeth of Belgium invited the press to the royal palace in Brussels. "The Queen and I, declared Albert, would like to announce to you the impending marriage between Prince Leopold, Duke of Brabant and the Princess Astrid of Sweden. We are convinced that the princess will bring joy and happiness to our son. Leopold and Astrid have decided to join their lives without any pressures or reasons of state. Theirs is a true union among people with the same inclinations."
In Stockholm, on 4 November 1926 civilly and religiously in Brussels on 10 November, Princess Astrid married Crown Prince Leopold of Belgium, the son of King Albert I of Belgium and his wife, Queen Elisabeth, born Duchess Elisabeth in Bavaria. It was a happy and devoted marriage. Astrid was enthusiastically adopted by the Belgians. She was widely loved for her beauty, charm and simplicity. Her public and official engagements irradiated enthusiasm. In 1927 Leopold and Astrid had a daughter, Princess Joséphine-Charlotte. Their first son, Prince Baudouin eventually succeeded his father as King of the Belgians.
On February 17, 1934, King Albert died in a mountain-climbing accident in Marche-les-Dames, Belgium. Leopold and Astrid became the new King and Queen of the Belgians. Later that year, the third child of Leopold and Astrid was born. He was named Albert after his grandfather, and would eventually succeed his brother Baudouin as King of the Belgians.
In August 1935, the King and Queen went incognito to Switzerland on holiday. On 29 August 1935, the King and Queen decided to go for a last hike in the mountains before returning home. The King was driving and the Queen looking at a map. As the Queen pointed out something to her husband the car went off the road, down a steep slope, slammed into a pear tree. It was 9:30 am on 29 August 1935. The Queen, pregnant with her fourth child, died from her injuries at the scene of the accident at Küssnacht am Rigi, near Lake Lucerne, Schwyz, Switzerland.
Queen Astrid is interred in the royal vault at the Church of Our Lady of Laeken, Brussels, beside her husband, King Leopold III of the Belgians, and his second wife, Princess Lilian of Belgium.
Informations français sur la reine Astrid:
Certains 50m au sud de la cache, vous pouvez trouver une place triangulaire avec la statue de la reine Astrid, qui a été l'inspiration pour le nom de caches.
La Reine Astrid
La princesse Astrid de
Suède épousa en 1926 le
futur roi Léopold III. Le
peuple belge fut d'emblée séduit par sa beauté et son intérêt pour les
humbles, au point
d'être durablement ému
par sa mort accidentelle
en 1935.
La
buste de la reine
Astrid (°1905 - †1935) qui occupe l'angle formé par les deux
artères de Chaussee de Boondael et rue du Relais est l'oeuvre de Victor Demanet (°1895 - †1964). La place etait modifier recentment.
Astrid Sofia Lovisa Thyra Bernadotte, princesse de Suède, née le 17 novembre 1905 à Stockholm et décédée le 29 août 1935 à Küssnacht am Rigi (Suisse), est la quatrième reine des Belges, du 23 février 1934 jusqu’à sa mort, dans un accident de voiture. Son fils cadet, Albert, est l'actuel roi des Belges, et elle est la tante de Harald, actuel roi de Norvège, et la grand-mère de Henri, actuel grand-duc de Luxembourg.
Née à Stockholm le 17 novembre 1905, fille du prince Carl de Suède et de la princesse Ingeborg de Danemark, nièce du roi Gustave V de Suède, sœur de la princesse royale Martha de Norvège, elle épouse, le 10 novembre 1926, Léopold de Saxe-Cobourg-Gotha, prince de Belgique, duc de Brabant, futur roi Léopold III.